Rookie TURNED a DISTURBING French Song about DEATH into the #1 HIT of 1974! | Professor of Rock

Coming up… it started out as a disturbing French song about death... Then it was translated into English and recorded by one of the biggest bands in rock history. The Beach Boys...but then Brian Wilson and his group abandoned the sessions and the song’s producer who was really an unknown at the time decided to record the song… Terry Jacks and his hit Seasons in the Sun…It became one of the biggest hits of the 70s and the best-selling song in Canada’s history.. on its way to sales of 15 million. It was a feel-good song unless one listened to the lyrics very closely or heard the original French version… Up next, the story of a one-hit wonder that is one part happy-go-lucky and one part sad and devastating… NEXT on Professor of Rock. Thank you to this episode’s sponsor, Zenni GET ZENNI Glasses HERE: https://imp.i279709.net/vn5gLd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Jenny Blaxell, Jason Elliott, Kelly Moan, Curtis Stoddard, Paul Duenas, Robert Hickerty ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's Store Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album https://amzn.to/3tLsII2 The 80s Collection https://amzn.to/3mAekOq 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -http://bit.ly/ProfessorMerch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out Patron Benefits http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_... https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you have always been curious about the stories behind the songs of your life. You’ll dig this music community the stories straight from the legends, the stories behind the songs. Subscribe below to be a member of this music community. We also have a way to support our mission and keep this channel alive. It’s our Patreon where you get more videos and can even be an honorary producer, check out that below. It helps us immensely. We also have merch below. let people know you’re a music lover. It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning where we celebrate a song that was king for a day or for many days. We honor artists and bands and that one glorious hit they had that rocketed up the charts…and for reasons unknown didn’t have another hit. We all know them for the term one-hit wonder but we try to step beyond that and celebrate them as Lightening in a bottle. Today we focus on a song that is both happy and quite dark. It’s a song that deserves a thorough breakdown… Today we take a walk through “Seasons in the Sun”- a song that was bottled lightning for Canadian singer-songwriter Terry Jacks in 1973. While I was preparing for this feature, I remembered a conversation that I was having with my business partner a while back, he told me a story that really hit home. He said that he attended a funeral some years back, for the father of one of his best friends. The deceased was also like a father to him. As the casket was being carried away to the burial site after a very emotional service, he said that there was an eerie silence… And then all of a sudden, the birds in the nearby trees began to sing, their chirping slowly getting louder and louder, until the flock was in harmony like a beautiful choir. For a moment, the birdsong was all that you could hear. In that moment... he said that he remembered feeling a peacefulness that he had never experienced before. He said that It was almost as if the birds were there to comfort him and the others that were there... the birds were conveying the message that this dear deceased man was at rest, and that precious life was ready to move forward… I was astounded when he told me about this because I had a similar experience which I’ll share later… but this feeling immediately took me back to the gripping lyric in Verse 2 of “Seasons in the Sun”: “Goodbye Papa, it’s hard to die, When all the birds are singing in the sky...